LIA FELIX (1830– )
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Originally appearing in Volume
V10,
Page 239
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
LIA See also:FELIX (1830– )
, See also:French actress, was the third See also:sister and the See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of the See also:great See also:Rachel
.
She had hardly been given any trial when, by See also:chance, she was called on to create the leading woman's See also:part in Lamartine's See also:Toussaint Louverture at the See also:Porte St See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin on the 6th of See also:April 1850
.
The See also:play did not make a See also:hit, but the See also:young actress was favourably noticed, and several important parts were immediately entrusted to her
.
She soon came to be recognized as one of the best comediennes in See also:Paris
.
Rachel took Lia to See also:America with her to play second parts, and on returning to Paris she played at several of the See also:principal theatres, although her See also:health compelled her to retire for several years
.
When she reappeared at the Gaiete in the See also:title-role of Jules See also:Barbier's Jeanne d'Arc she had an enormous success
.
End of Article: LIA FELIX (1830– )
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